Sunday, March 14, 2010

According to Environment Canada, the winter of 2009/10 was the warmest and the driest since national records were kept in 1948. The country was 4.0 C warmer and 22% drier than "normal", which for those of you scoring at home, is the 1971-2000 1951-1980 mean.

At the risk of picking a nit, for the Climate Trends and Variations Bulletins (CTVB), Environment Canada defines the normal baseline using the 1951-80 thirty year interval.

The Canadian MSM was too focused on the global warming is a hoax story to notice that temperatures in Canada were running well above normal. It fits in well with our current federal governments spin. At some point in the near future I expect the CTVB to dissappear to save the government from continued embarrassment.